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LARC Basic Ham Course Information

Reference Documents:

Schedule for the 2011 Class, and Instructor contact info
Memory aid for colour-coded resistor identification

Full size copies of Mitch Powell's handouts:
          Feedlines
          Antennas

Slides from Bill McHugh's presentations:
          Receivers
          Modulation and Transmitters

Downloadable files with the exam questions for each chapter, with the correct answer identified and explained briefly:

Chapter	Title	Answer file
1 and 17	Rules and Regulations	Regs-Part-A   Regs-Part-B
2	Basic Electronics	chapt2
3	Ohm's Law and Power	chapt3
4	Inductors and Capacitors	chapt4
5	Waves, Wavelength, Frequency and Bands	chapt5
6	Propagation	chapt6
7	Feedlines / Transmission Lines	chapt7
8	Antennas	chapt8
9	Active Devices: Diodes, Transistors, Tubes	chapt9
10	Power Supplies	chapt10
11	Establishing and Equipping a Station	chapt11
12	Routine Operation	chapt12  Digital-Modes
13	Modulation and Transmitters	chapt13
14	Receivers	chapt14
15	Interference and Suppression	chapt15
16	Safety	chapt16

To do the review test for one of the chapters in the Studyguide:

1. Make sure you have a printout of this file handy.
2. go to this website:  http://www.coaxpublications.ca/
3. on the left side of the window, click on "Student Success Pages"
4. Under "Invoice Number", type 69811448 and hit the ENTER key
   
5. You'll be asked for some information that's in the file from step 1 above
6. Type in the requested information, followed by the ENTER key
7. Click on "Basic Qualification" on the left side of the window
8. Click on one of the little white circles to select a chapter to review
9. Click on "Review a Chapter" on the left side of the window
10. You'll now get the first in a series of questions from the exam bank
11. click on what you think is the right answer.
    
12. If you get it wrong, you will see a message identfying the section in the studyguide to review
13. If you get it right, it will tell you that, and let you go on to the next question
14. When you've done enough of that chapter, hit "Finished - Return to Student Success" on the left
15. To do another chapter, go back to step 7 above
16. To finish altogther, just close your browser.

You can try a sample exam, of a selectable length, by changing step 9 above to be:
         click on the "Try a Sample Exam" button on the left side of the window.

The sample exams don't tell you what the correct answer was when you make a mistake, or what section of the Study guide to review, so you may want to do some chapter by chapter review if you want to get some detailed feedback.

Writing practice exams to get ready for your ham licence exam:

1) downloadable software from the RAC website that will generate test exams:
          http://www.rac.ca/en/amateur-radio/beginner-info/exhaminer/

2) downloadable exam generator from Industry Canada
          http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf05378.html